Run by industry stakeholders, the EU Cloud CoC is an EDPB endorsed and legally operational transnational Code of Conduct that provides explicit guidance for cloud service providers to effectively incorporate the obligations specified in Article 28 GDPR. Successfully going through the EU Cloud CoC assessment serves as proof of compliance towards Data Protection Supervisory Authorities and cloud users.
“[…] the EU Cloud CoC genuinely chose approaches which could be referred to a good practice for the development of Codes of Conduct in general […]”
The EU Cloud CoC foresees several principles, which might be considered good practices in the future as of today. In other instances, real life experience indicates what adapted approaches will likely become good practices. Two of the approaches are certainly the modularity of the Code and the principles of a monitoring framework within the Code itself.
Read the full publication here: “First operational transnational Code of Conduct –Deriving Good Practices from Real Life Lighthouses”.